The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the … characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary … well as gradual real income losses, the economic policy implication for Japan and Europe is the timely exit from the …

Japan hat nicht nur 15 Jahre vor Europa einen Boom-und-Krisen-Zyklus durchschritten, sondern auch wichtige Erfahrungen … gemacht. Japan hat die Nullzinsgrenze bereits 1999 erreicht und eine Staatsverschuldung in Rekordhöhe angehäuft. Das Papier … vergleicht die Boom-und- Krisen-Zyklen in Japan und Europa hinsichtlich der Ursachen, des Krisenverlaufs, der Krisentherapien und …

Few papers have tried to project how Chinese monetary policy will behave under flexible exchange rates. As Japan … policy after the shift of Japan from a fixed to a floating exchange rate regime. The econometric estimations allow for regime … soften the appreciation pressure by interest rate cuts have led Japan into the liquidity trap …

left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous …

monetary policy had a significant impact on Japan's household behavior via the interest rate channel and the redistribution …